Probably lack of similar problems with my screens (both notebook and desktop) made me over-optimistic. :)
On 11/14/2014 03:20 PM, Stanislav Baiduzhyi wrote: > On Friday 14 November 2014 15:10:05 Constantin Makshin wrote: >> On 11/14/2014 02:41 PM, Stanislav Baiduzhyi wrote: >>> - when you're using some brand new laptop your physical screen dimension >>> may not be present in X db yet, which means that X just takes your screen >>> resolution, assumes 96dpi and calculates physical dimensions based on >>> that, which usually gives you result very far from expected. >> >> Every reasonably modern computer screen provides its physical size in >> EDID and X server will use that information unless you explicitly tell >> it to use other source. > > And yet with every new laptop I'm getting I have to write it down manually to > xorg.conf to make X return proper values :) and not only laptops, but my > brand > new Philips 3D monitor had to be forced as well. > > I agree with your points that stuff like that should not be needed in 21st > century, but real world is way close to antiutopia than we would like, so > forcing proper DPI resolution is one of major world problems at the moment.
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